Pine forests are important to the environment. But recently, outside factors plague the health of pine trees in Alabama. Last ...

HBO’s The Last of Us might be a dystopian thrill ride, but how real is its core concept that a fungus could hijack the human ...

An increased risk of both invasive and superficial fungal infections was observed among patients who received TNF-α inhibitors for various conditions.

The researchers then investigated how the metabolisms of treated mice changed. They found that the effect was caused by ...

There's a lot going on in the teeming microbiomes of our guts, and we're regularly making new discoveries about these ...

Fungal pathogenesis is the process by which fungi infect and cause disease in a host. Not all fungi are pathogens and have the ability for pathogenesis, also known as virulence. In this Review ...

Meningitis can occur due to a viral, bacterial, or fungal infection and requires emergency ... infection due to an outbreak of meningococcal disease If you fall into any of the categories above ...

monitoring bats for the presence of the fungus. Colorado is home to 19 native bat species and at least 13 of them may be susceptible to the disease, the release states. All of Colorado’s native bats ...

The number of fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000, confirming that deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving these species to ...

The new season of “The Last of Us” arrives on April 13. In the show, a fictional fungus infects humans and spreads through the air. This idea feels unsettlingly real because some actual fungi spread ...

CRISPR can't target every location in the genome, and it can't fix the thousands of mutations present in diseases like cystic ... including animals, fungi, and plants. They are often called ...

But for infectious disease specialists like Peter Chin-Hong, one of the most insidious threats lurking in hospitals and clinics today is fungal. Chin-Hong’s case list is long: a healthy 29-year ...